Dongi_2018

Steam wows players can collect a T3 fee PA cruiser, Ning Hai. In addition, if you play one game with the ship, you get an additional Steam container. Offer valid up to 3rd of August.

To complete the meta mission this patch you “ have to” get a win in this mode…not sure if I want to dirty myself..

It’s always easy to pick on WG, they make it quite easy for us to do so. But last patch I think many things were done right. Assymetric battles: was a good way to level those T9 BB’s ( or other classes if you felt comfortable) in a decent efficient environment. With premium ships you could farm decent amount of resources. Yes WG nerfed those gains for BB’s faster then a bug that negatively impacts players but stil. Earned me a lot of credits while also leveling through Iowa and Lion. Also gave decent amounts of CT although that gain was negated by the lack of Twitch drops this patch. US event. Free VW 41. Ok grind, no money/ doubloons required. Plus some nice bonus CT. VW41 might not be the best ship, but at least won’t drop in future SC/ Satan containers. Assymetric battles helped me getting Montana due to an easy Iowa grind. French event; exchange silver for ingame goodies, chance for premium drops and permanent camo for French dd line. Did cost me some precious silver but ended up with the lower tier camo’s and 2 premium ships ( Gascogne and Le terrible) which is extremely lucky. Now looking at the first drop of the 5m drop which is Kleber camo.. Jager event. Chance to grind the missions in a week plus some additional in game currency to receive a T9:premium dd. Dropped the ball here. Decided that I could not do the grind in time so ( did not see you could unlock both routes at the same time) and went for 5 SC and silver. SC turned out to be extremely meh ( 5 SC closer towards the 200 guaranteed drop…) but silver helped to finance some other ships and modules. Conclusion: interesting patch with events that allow you to get some meaningful rewards even if you neglect paid parts of these event or full paid content like the summer tokens etc.. 12.5: good patch! Now with 12.6 we are greeted with a double rng pay event plus an alternative CV battle type…Spanish cruisers dont look bad. Will end up with both the T7 ship and booster.

This patch cost me zero doubloons ( specifically mentioning several times that no real money/ doubloons were spent ) and assymetric event earned me enough in game resources to finance and equip several new T9 and T10 ships and pay the silver for the French event. So this patch boosted my resources instead of draining it. Silver is largely spent ( the easiest to get ingame currency imo) while FXP and CXP are hoarded. Coal and steel income was regular and did not see any expenditure since I opted out of the Jager purchase. And about the assymetric nerf; luckily played the most in the first week ( only week that I played so much that I earned the 50k xp CT mission) and yes seeing silver rewards go down to 1m vs the earlier average 1,5m silver was a sad nerf. But still continued to successfully farm resources and level new T9’s. So nowhere as “ nerfed to the ground”. So 12.5 was good.

Proceeds to check the drops ( at least nice to see the first drops). Number of tokens in first row:1, so garbage. First reward on the “ cheap” line: garbage. First reward on the expensive line: also crap. Easy pass. Bye!

Cant imagine any worthwhile way to make this work for us players.. WG will most likely block the route “ turn in coal ship” for a doubloon only ship. And even if that is the case I have plenty coal ships to unlock plus the coal ships I do have are by my choice and thus wanted. If possible with reasonable conversion I would trade a coal ship for the 2 missing T6 ships just for clearing a low tier bracket to force future Santa and SC containers to drop higher tiers. But this would be a more strategic choice / gamble then based on playing ships you like. Only way I could see this work is you have gained a premium ship through an event or rng drop and it’s really bad or a class that you dislike. And you are able to trade it without cash needed for a ship 1/2 tiers lower. I have almost 90% of the regular T5-T7 ships and very few of the T8 ( this week extremely lucky drops of both Gascogne and Le Terrible added a bit). Even if I decide to trade in my Gascogne / Le Terrible: Looking at the lower tier Scharnhorst might be the only out of 5 remaining lower tiers that I would like to have. Being somehow useful at fe scenarios. But definitely not trading 1 T8 for a T7 when additional funding is required. Same for trading 2 T8 for a T8 I want to have ( and that is regular available). For sure i would trade Gascogne one for one for many T8’s. Maybe even for a cruiser ( as BB’s are more expensive in doubloons) but expecting WG to offer this kind of a deal…

Got extremely extremely lucky with the normal ( non premium) containers. For the first 2 rounds ( the 3M and the 20M) the containers gave Gascogne, Le Terrible and 1k coal ( with no more premium ships to give the alternative reward) With an established 1% drop chance and less then 20 crates 2 ships ( actually 3) is outstanding. Should have bought lottery tickets instead.

Ships I have: Ohio was my first ship and I would still advertise it as overall best first pick. Though it’s not a Georgia with an extra turret ( lacks the speed) and in coop this means you are not fast enough to use the limited time to get the damage / kills. The guns really hit hard and even the secondaries work but fast dd/ torp armed cruisers will get to the bots first. Yolo Emilio. Works. But differently in coop then in pvp. If you have the skills to kill the enemy DD’s with guns first, evade incoming torps and then kill with your torps in close range the cruisers/ BB’s behind, you are ok. Even better if you don’t die and succeed into getting a second torp run. Works most of the time. Reward not always great. Highly repetitive. When I see another player in front of me in a Yolo they either take all kills or they suicide into torps of the first bot dd. next buy Illinois. My next buy on the list. But it’s more a live improvement purchase to ease up those BB x amount main battery hits missions. Don’t have myself but played before: Colbert. Never got used to this ship. No torps. It’s an inferior Smolensk. In coop you might hose down a dd ( if your aim is good) and hope for fires to take down a bb but you lack instant kill power vs everything beyond fragile light cruisers. Slava. Bots rush you. You might get a broadside or 2 if you position well and 406 even citadel some ships through the nose but reload time and only having 9 406 guns at T10 will make this ship hard to use effectively. Pen is god tier as is accuracy but in coop ( or the current assymetric) this ship is difficult. Gibraltar. Guns hit.Hard. You make DD’s and cruisers cry and even well placed shells make BB bots feel your presence. But going in will test your armor. It’s strenght is to use smokescreens, look for broadsides and farm. But coop means getting in and take kills. Thus you throw away part of the toolset of Gibraltar. Never played / low buy priority. Siefried/ Sevastopol : 380 armed heavy cruisers. Might have their use. Especially with torps. But Agir might be more easy to get with coal. The DD’s: one has AP only, no torps. Does not really make a good coop combo. The other a sidegrade of the silver UK T10 dd. Lesser torps. You want to have sufficient instant kill torp strengt to deal with some HP heavy BB’s at their tier.

For grinding xp ( silver T9’s): the ships that I delayed leveling playing in randoms: Lion, Iowa ( due to trying to get Montana for the current mission). But picked these before the BB nerf. Also finished the last 100k xp on the IKEA T9 dd. For money: premium ships. Alaska: tanky, wrecks cruisers and is still able to citadel some of the bot BB’s. Also radar, hydro together with usable HE makes it able to touch DD’s and subs. Use Salem as well but, less € because T10.

Looking at the first mission reveals a 3 set mission chain. Moderate grind lvl but I doubt that, assuming the other 8 parts will be equally or tougher to grind, I will have the stomach to grind all before next Friday ( coupon deadline). Also not willing to gamble buy the missing tokens. First visible rng loot box is bad so it ends there. But with up to 280 tokens from the mission ( or less if I only partly complete the chain) i will happily take the 5 “ super” containers plus any remaining silver. But with assymetric battles, the relative easy grind for a free VW41 and now this event ( with still nice side rewards ) a good patch!

Seems to be a nice event. Grindy but nice. Up to 20 juli to get some US ships for the collection. Either need to get the VW41 through event tokens or buy and play the T9’s Fletcher, Iowa or Buffalo to get the required T10 .. Would prefer Iowa but assymetric has just been nerfed for BB’s…Then play those 5x games for each of the US ships for another 500 CT. Looking forward to get the VW41 for free tokens.At least to make sure it won’t drop from a SC or Satan crate. Overall seems ok, was planning to level up another line to T10. Seems WG just nudged me towards Montana. VW41 for (monetary) free tokens is a nice bonus. No need to use wallet.

You get 100 tokens from the rng daily loot and 1350 from the free BP. And will probably get that because I made good progress due to actually enjoying the new pve mode..Unfortunately WG got triggered because they cannot allow players actually enjoying themselves so asymmetric battles already got nerfed but I will probably still finish the BP. I will gamble for the free chance for a nice permanent camo. Rest will go into a pitiful amount of credits… But paying for the BP? I return the middlefinger that WG is always happy to give to us in regard to bugs, submarines, CV reeework and nerfs of things that we actually enjoy.

Game proces that is negative for the player : WG sleeps Game proces that actually works to the benefit off the player : WG OMG Nerf asap… players might buy less doubloons to convert in credits/ FXP.Must kill kill ( while pulling false excuses out of their *s to find some alternative reasoning…)

Perfect to grind some viable T9’s ( BB’s)that otherwise I would not like to take in T9 randoms ( hello subs, CV’s and T11) and coop is economic not viable. Currently bought Lion and have all modules and 60k progress towards the T10. Silver and FXP gained this week paid for the fully equipped Lion, the fully equipped UK T8 sub and FXP’ed the T10. Ambition is that I earn enough silver to pay for my researched but not yet bought German T 10CV and the 3 T10 subs. If I finish Lion I might pick another T9 BB to level. Edit: just read the update and WG is acting as fun police again.. Fine, Alaska it is..

For all the mentions of OG Belfast being so OP, I don’t encounter it often. Is this that the Belfast is difficult to get ( WG created scarcity) and it’s old owners playing the game less? Even in operations I hardly encounter her,

Always short on money. But that’s because I keep all ships in port from tier 5 onwards. I focus on ships up to T8, continue play to unlock T9 and only then I pick a selected T9 to proceed up to T10. Currently all T8 with exception to the new T8 UK sub are in port and done. All other T9 unlocked but only about 10 lines completed. Even have 3 T10 ( 1 CV and 2 subs- cv done through operations, subs fxp’ed) researched but lacking money… These are my priority due to snowflakes. Even with the new “ super” containers.. So definitely a silver problem. Although port space is tight too. FXP has become the only “ credit” currency that became more scarce after rework. In contrast, both flags and economic bonusses ( even ignoring the grey ones) are plentiful.I manage to keep the amounts +200 positive…even sometimes dumping the lesser usefull ones if they exceed 300+ or so..also to generate some silver..

No it’s not…. As advertised: First watch 90 minutes for drop 1. Then After you get drop 1 ( aka 90 minutes) the countdown starts for another 90 minutes to get work on drop 2. 90+90 = 180–> the total time needed to get drop 2.. Change is that the countdown for drop 2 starts immediately ( so no waiting 90 minutes for finishing drop 1 first) but it then takes 180 mins ( the original 90+90…)

Last time I checked coop everyone faces the same ai… only difference is the quality of the player, the ship and rng regarding map and spawning. Nope. Entitled to zero kills/ xp. Work for it. The 35-40% WR players are as useless in Coop as in operations or Randoms. In coop it’s just easier to compensate those teammates. You even profit from their ineptitude by getting higher scores. With Operations it already becomes way more difficult to carry a majority 40% WR team. It’s starts with solid 55%+ WR that do well in coop when certain grindy missions favor coop as the most efficient means. If that means that the usual coop amateurs sailing comfortably get shifted massively…sucks to be them, get gud. And yes when I am in a BB I despair when i see a fast torp dd in front of me..When I look at the stats afterwards is see corresponding colors. If purple it has been a bad game for me xp wise..But if it’s a dark red player, even in an OP coop ship, most of the time I still got a decent mission score. Most of the time I actually get decent scores with slow BB’s while I should get absolute bad result because all the faster DD’s etc… But again playerbase is so bad..Even in coop. Before WG did not allow coop to be used for finishing these missions.. and then the coop based community raged because they felt excluded…until WG allowed missions to be achievable in coop. And now coop players claim they are outgamed by players that visit coop for the more efficient grinding…pick your poison.

What is a coop abuser? Some players are just better then others. Are there random or operation abusers too? And I cannot be blamed for getting 3-4 bot kills by a guy who sits in an equally fast, torpedo armed, cruiser in the back sniping at the bots with the wrong ammo choice.. Players are not entitled to xp or kills… And if you are looking at coop for a competitive and exiting game mode…. Most of the time rng is either with you or against. Bots moving away from your flank is something that happens and is at best a setback you can only partly recover from if your ship is fast enough. And having to share a flank with a capable player that outspeeds and out alpha strikes you ( aka torps) means having troubles. When I do coop I get the best results not because of me but because most of the competition ( competition in coop are your team mates not the bots imo) is so incredibly “ ****”.

@YabbaCoe any idea about the reward level of these battles? I mean in xp terms? Must be way better then regular coop? Because if not it will not offset the risk of foreseeable drama. Easy operations are already a nightmare in the weekends with oblivious players ruining the games. I can already smell the drama when players suicide kill ( maybe) one bot, thinking they did well and leave the remaining 3 reliable players to face off the majority of bots..

There are no co-op players. Just WOWS players that select a certain battletype. So instead of selecting co-op you select Asymmetric as you now also can select Randoms or operations etc.. Although with the current playerbase buffed bots might prove to be too much…Especially if you have been fighting CO-OP braindrain bots only and you meet AI intelligence…Probably might even surprise 40% WR Random players..

If you have an abundance of currency like for example CXP or silver its a good option to exchange those, due to over abundance of those resources and no remaining reasonable ways to spend them, for premium ships. A premium ship in port that otherwise you can only not get by spending either real money (doubloons) or more scarce usefull resources (like CT) is a good trade. I have over 3 M CXP that i dont use since my special admirals are all lvl 21 and i mainly use those on my premium ships. Pus some silver that easy replacable --> Tashkent premium ship in port vs useless currency.

I found this to be one of the the more pleasant introduction event for some time. Plus: You get the mid tier ships quite easy. I only finished the 4 ( or was it even the 3rd) mission groups and already got the T7. And the permanent bonus for T6-T8. You also get the low ships (T3-T5) but that’s just a bonus. After getting the main reasonable free to play prizes ( the T7) you still have some tokens left that can buy you other goodies like permanent camo’s or you can just decide to stop grinding. There is nothing forcing you to grind the event to the end to get that last final reward. The separate questline for the permanent economic bonus is also rather easy. Also because you get the ships early and thus can work on grinding the xp mission from an early start. No rng for the free stuff Neutral: The T8 as BP reward. Silver ship as BP reward is meh..added bonus this time is that not only you get the T8, you also open up more possibilities to progress the missions plus you have an easy shot to also add the T9 permanent economic bonus to your stock. Con’s: WG eliminated the option to get doubloons refunded if you equip a ship with a owned permanent bonus and thence the quest permanent bonus reward..its just silver now… Offering the T2 as a rng reward…like even if it showed up as the first guaranteed drop… Rng shenanigans for the T9 and trying to squeeze money with tokens rng for the T10.

Tried my luck and bought up to the SC. Which turned in a 1000D so at least that final one paid back for itself a bit. For the rest silver ( welcome), coal and 2 permanent camo’s for premium ships I don’t have nor intend to purposely buy. Furthermore some other cheap stuff that is mostly turned into more credits..My hope was one of the 3 remaining UK premiums ( have the cheapest ship, Dido, in port)but I used my luck with a premium from a random SC before. About 1500D spent ( compensation through 1k from SC) vs coal, a nice amount of silver and some blue boosters I kept. Not great, not bad. But these compensation rules get worse each time.. if you have been a whale in the past WG is surely punishing you. Collecting TX for SC — > SC nerf. Having many premiums in port—> here is 500 FXP… it’s just too dumb..

First coal container of the day turned into.... Second SC random ship after Sirocco a long time ago..